We should like to come back to our suggestions from 1.9., 11.9. and from 10.10.2013 (see on this blog) and continue giving impulses to our pre-workshop-discussion. Therefore, after re-reading the texts by the Ostroms and your contributions – we are looking forward to getting some more – we would like to formulate a few more theses: Continue reading →

To further your thinking and rethinking and to stimulate you to “feed” the workshop blog we want to “sharpen” the working theses to a few, but even more provocative statements:

1.The fascinating ability of the Ostroms for formulating helpful questions concerning the possible ways for dealing with “threats to sustainability” is highly fruitful for dealing with mainstream economics, but it must not be regarded as an offensive dealing with them. Continue reading →

The concept “polycentricity” stands as a foundation for the theory, empirical studies, and practical applications of ideas that have come out of works by Vincent Ostrom, Elinor Ostrom, and their colleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Self-governance is the basic value and principle in their writings. Vincent Ostrom theorized and Elinor Ostrom demonstrated that the particular form of “rule ordered relations”– in short, institutions– which was perhaps most conducive to self-governance could be described as many “centers” of semi-autonomous, concurrent authorities–polycentric institutional designs. Continue reading →